Sentence examples for pernicious substance from inspiring English sources

The book presents the last 2500 years of philosophy as a long battle against the pernicious substance concept.

Pernicious means dangerous, destructive, deadly.

Addicts come in many guises, but the most pernicious are substance-abuse abusers — those reckless, incorrigible souls who cannot stop bingeing on the weaknesses of the rich and semi-famous.

In the 1930s, three scientists won a Nobel Prize for discovering that a substance in raw liver cured pernicious anemia, a disease that was almost always fatal.

Inhalant use is among the most pernicious and poorly understood forms of adolescent substance use.

That message is particularly pernicious.

Probiotic cultures could produce antimicrobial substances thus contributing to inhibit development of pernicious microbiota and subsequently acquire a prolonged shelf-life.

Indeed, the cooccurrence between mental disorders and psychoactive substances misuse often leads to a more pernicious and difficult to treat course of illness, in terms of possible earlier age of onset, frequency and length of episodes, and diminished treatment compliance [ 2, 3].

What pernicious lies people make up and peddle; there were no illegal substances in the singer's body that night.

The direct causes of disease, he argued, were those that "accumulate noxious matters within the system, by impairing the action of the excretory or depurating organs whose office it is to maintain the blood in a state of purity, by removing out of the system substances which having served their purpose have become useless and pernicious".

In pernicious anemia vitamin B12 is unavailable due to a lack of intrinsic factor, a substance responsible for intestinal absorption of the vitamin.